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- The Partners Meet and Prepare to Travel to Arizona (June-July 4, 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-partners-meet-and-prepare-to-travel-to-arizona-june-july-4-1876/…y well together, both having the same tastes and likings.” (Hislop letter 7/3/1876) At the Cliff House. Source: Library of Congress Hislop’s Impressions of San Francisco Hislop writes ( 7/3/1876): “You can go out every day without an umbrella for months and see a sky as perfect as a sky can be, there is always a delicious breeze from the bay, the only disadvantage of this is that the sand blows about so and gets in your eyes. We took a trip from S…
- Vail & Gates, 1888-1909
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-gates-1888-1907/…the sheep that had been raised on the island. [Tombstone Weekly Epitaph, 7/3/1892] Harry Heffner, who became manager of the Empire Ranch from 1902-1905, was first hired by Walter Vail in 1893 to gather cattle on Catalina for shipment to Kansas. He had never worked in ranching, just knew how to ride a horse. Heffner recalls Vail saying: “We’re gathering cattle on Catalina Island. We’re going to take them off because they are starving to death over…
- Chiricahua Ranches Company Ownership, 1928-1951
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/chiricahua-ranches-company-ownership-1928-1951/…to use a wet gunny sack and a flapper, as did the whole community.” [http://sefd911.org/sam-frazier/] Holdings of the two ranches. Chiricahua Ranches Limited Partnership Dissolved – 1951 On December 31, 1951 the Chiricahua Ranches Limited Partnership was dissolved. Henry and Margaret Boice became the sole owners of the Arivaca Ranch and Frank and Mary Boice became the sole owners of the Empire Ranch using the corporate name of Empire Cattle Compa…
- The Search for the Right Ranch (July 14-August 22, 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/the-search-for-the-right-ranch-july-14-august-22-1876/…es A453-1 July 17, 1876 – Back to Tucson from Fish’s Ranch Hislop writes (8/7/1876): “Up at 5 a.m. and had rather a bother to catch our riding horse but the man on the ranch soon managed to catch it for us. One has to do things for themselves here and if one did not know how he would be badly off, no ceremony I can tell you. Left for Tucson at 7:30 a.m., having had two miners as bed-fellows the night before, the rain having turned them and their f…
- Frank & Mary Boice Family Ownership, 1951-1969
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/frank-mary-boice-family-ownership-1951-1969/…nt and the Congress and which was written into law.” [Arizona Daily Star, 4/4/1956] Pancho (l) and Bob Boice (r), 1960s. ERF archives: B203-28 Empire and Slash S Ownership and Operations – 1956 After Frank Boice’s death the ownership of the two ranches changed. The Empire ownership became 50% Mary Boice, 25%, Pancho Boice, and 25% Bob Boice. The Slash S ownership was 50% Pancho Boice and 50% Bob and Miriam Boice. Pancho managed the day-to-day oper…
- Empire Ranch is Purchased and the Hard Work Begins (August-December 1876)
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/empire-ranch-is-purchased-and-the-hard-work-begins-august-december-1876/…ed more pleasant than right in town.” The next week the Citizen reported (9/2/1876): “Various opinions prevail as to the comparative success of the Feast of St. Augustine, now in progress. The feast will be apt to continue till tomorrow evening – perhaps longer. On Thursday evening there was a very interesting balloon ascension. Everything goes on peaceably and orderly.” View of Empire Ranch from northwest, Mustang Mountains in the background, 188…
- Gulf American Corporation Ownership, 1970-1975
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/gulf-american-corporation-ownership-1970-1975/…ls and parks, governmental buildings and hospitals.” [Arizona Daily Star, 7/1/1970]. The concern about GAC’s methods for selling lots were prompted by its aggressive marketing efforts including: ”Millions of vacation “tickets” to the Tucson-Nogales area are being distributed throughout the United States by GAC Properties of Arizona as part of a new sales promotion program… the tickets offer an opportunity for visitors to see the company’s Rio Rico…
- Vail, Hislop, and Harvey 1877-1878
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/vail-hislop-and-harvey-1877-1878/…Hislop Begins to Have Second Thoughts – January 1877 Walter Vail writes (1/2/1877): “I heard Hislop wish a few nights ago that the Indians would come and take all the horses & sheep so that he might have a chance to go home, this would be a pretty quick way of selling out the business of Vail Hislop & Harvey wouldn’t it…” Arizona Weekly Citizen, December 9, 1876 Cattle at Last and No More Sheep – January 1877 In January the partners are finally a…
- Newsletter Articles – Topic Index
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/about/newsletter/article-topic-index/…Drive from Arizona to California, Dec 2016, p. 3 LCNCA Junior Explorer Hand*]}*book, Mar 2016, p. 4 Visit and Learn, Feb 2014, p. 4 New ERF Website Debuts, Nov 2013, p. 3 Arizona Memory Project Includes Empire Ranch Oral Histories, Feb 2013, p. 4 Local Authors Release New Book, Empire Ranch, Nov 2012, p. 3 New Wayside Signs Surround Ranch House, Feb 2012, p. 3 Enhanced Foundation Brochure Published, Feb 2012, p. 3 New Pocket Guide to Las Cienegas NCA,…
- Boice Family Ranching History, 1859-1928
https://www.empireranchfoundation.org/empire-ranch-history/chronology/boice-family-ranching-history-1859-1928/…d along the Cimarron River in Kansas and Oklahoma. [Topeka State Journal, 3/1/1898]. The Boice family home remained in Kansas City but they spent summers at Point of Rock. Henry Jr. and Frank Boice began to learn cowboying skills at the early age of 6 1/2 and 5 respectively. Point of Rocks Ranch. Courtesy of Santa Fe Trails Research Point of Rock Ranch – 1897 A newspaper article described the Point of Rock ranching operation. “The Boice Cattle com…